Getting a job has become a full-time job you don’t get paid for. You comb through listings, rewrite the same cover letter, then send your little parcel of ambition into the internet and hear… nothing. Horrific. I know.
But I’ve got you, homies.
I’ve found 16 remote jobs with direct application links, and you’re getting the full list for free. These aren’t random roles scraped from the depths of a job board either. They’re jobs where the work you’ve already done on Substack, writing, researching, building an audience, shaping a voice, creating consistently, and keeping a community alive, can help you stand out. Your newsletter isn’t a cute side project here. It’s proof.
And… there’s one role that will reeeeeally grab your attention near the end.
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This may be one of the most valuable posts to leave our little office, so bring your optimism, grit, ambition, and a slightly unreasonable amount of Carrie Bradshaw energy.
We’re going job hunting.
“Remote” doesn’t always mean “work from anywhere”. We’ve put the location restrictions near the top of every listing, so you can rule a role in or out before becoming emotionally attached to the job description. A small public-service act.
Company: garden3d
Location: Worldwide, remote
Type: Contract, beginning with a 4-month paid trial
Salary: $75–$120 per hour (USD)
Deadline: Rolling
About garden3d
garden3d is a worker-owned creative collective behind Sanctuary Computer, XXIX and Index Space. Its client roster includes Google, Stripe, Figma, Mozilla, Etsy and the ACLU.
What you’d be doing
Lead marketing and communications across several brands, including Substack, podcast, social and paid media.
Turn the collective’s work into sharp case studies, campaigns and editorial stories.
Direct producers, editors and freelancers while measuring what the work does, not how busy it made everyone look.
The Office tip: Don’t pitch your Substack as “writing experience”. Show how you built a distinct editorial voice, kept a publishing system moving and turned one idea into posts, social assets and community conversation. That’s the house-of-brands problem garden3d needs you to solve.
To apply
See the full job description and apply
Company: Inkwell Games
Location: Worldwide, remote (USA preferred)
Type: Full-time
Salary: $55,000–$80,000 per year (USD)
Deadline: Rolling
About Inkwell Games
Inkwell Games makes daily digital logic puzzles, including Stars, Fields and Lazy River.
What you’d be doing
Own the content calendar across TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, from idea to published post.
Build the company’s influencer and micro-creator programme.
Use platform and product data to decide what the next batch of content should be.
The Office tip: Bring 3 recurring formats from your Substack and explain how you’d adapt them into short-form puzzle content. Your archive proves you can build a content engine; Inkwell wants to see whether you can make it move faster.
Perks: Startup equity, generous PTO, health insurance reimbursement and a retirement plan where applicable.
To apply
See the full job description and apply
Company: Foreign Policy
Location: Worldwide, remote
Type: Freelance or part-time, project-based
Deadline: Rolling
About Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy is an independent strategy and design studio in Singapore, known for culture-led brand identities across hospitality, retail, food and the arts.
What you’d be doing
Develop brand narratives, positioning, naming, tone of voice and messaging systems.
Write strategy decks, guidelines, campaign concepts and brand copy.
Translate cultural research into language that gives designers something useful to build from.
The Office tip: Use your Substack to prove you can turn cultural observation into a point of view. Send 2 pieces where the language, references and structure create a world, then explain how that instinct could become a brand narrative or tone-of-voice system.
To apply
Email your portfolio and CV to appointments@foreignpolicy.design with the subject “Application for Brand Strategist/Copywriter”or view the listing.
Company: Poppy Co.
Location: Worldwide, remote (Mumbai, India preferred)
Type: Freelance
Deadline: Rolling
What you’d be doing
Write social copy and internet-native one-liners for a team looking for someone “chronically online” in the useful sense.
The Office tip: Pull 5 lines from your Substack that earned replies, restacks or “I wish I’d written that” reactions. Poppy needs evidence that you understand internet rhythm, not a portfolio full of polished paragraphs behaving themselves.
To apply
Email farming@poppy.club or view the listing.
Company: Bobbie
Location: Worldwide, Remote
Experience: 1–3 years in creator partnerships, influencer marketing, social media or community management
Deadline: Rolling
What you’d be doing
Support creator and ambassador partnerships for a brand built around infant nutrition and advocacy, from relationship-building to campaign coordination.
The Office tip: Point to a Substack collaboration you handled well, even if it was unpaid: how you chose the person, shaped the shared angle and made both audiences feel considered. Bobbie’s advocacy-led brand needs partnership judgement, not a giant contact list.
To apply
See the full job description and apply
Company: Serae Health
Location: Worldwide, remote
Deadline: Rolling
About Serae Health
Serae Health is a women’s wellness small business.
What you’d be doing
Creating visual and short-form video content using Canva and CapCut. The public listing is brief, so ask about hours, deliverables, location eligibility and pay in the first exchange.
The Office tip: Rework one Substack post into a carousel and a 15-second CapCut concept before reaching out. It gives Serae proof that you can translate an idea across formats, while giving you something concrete to discuss when the listing itself is this vague.
To apply
Email partnerships@seraehealth.com.
Company: Good Impressions
Location: Anywhere, remote (California-to-UK time zones)
Type: Full-time
Salary: $150,000–$200,000 per year (USD)
Deadline: Rolling
About Good Impressions
Good Impressions is a nonprofit startup creating public engagement around critical problems. It has raised $9.4 million and is building the operating system for its next stage.
What you’d be doing
Run planning, accountability, meetings, documentation and organisational reporting.
Own internal systems, people operations, finance, compliance, IT, security and vendor relationships.
Build AI and automation into how a 5–30-person organisation works.
The Office tip: Don’t lead with the essays. Lead with the system behind them: your editorial calendar, submission process, automations, publishing checklist and performance review. Good Impressions needs proof that you can make good work repeatable.
To apply
See the full job description and apply
Company: Epoch AI
Location: Remote, anywhere; working hours must overlap with Pacific Time for at least 4 hours (roughly UTC−8 to UTC−3)
Type: Full-time
Salary: $95,000–$140,000 per year (USD, usually paid in local currency)
Deadline: Rolling
What you’d be doing
Own the production workflow for the Epoch Brief newsletter and support social distribution around AI research.
The Office tip: Choose one technical or research-heavy idea you translated for Substack and show the before-and-after: source material, editorial angle and final reader-friendly piece. Epoch needs someone who can preserve accuracy without making the newsletter feel like homework.
To apply
See the full job description and apply
Company: Original Form
Location: USA, remote or San Diego
Type: Full-time
Deadline: 27 August 2026
About Original Form
Original Form is an independent creative and marketing studio that helps brands evolve without losing what made them recognisable in the first place.
What you’d be doing
Lead strategy across a portfolio of clients and turn ambiguous briefs into a defensible point of view.
Build research syntheses, audience work, journeys, positioning, creative briefs and campaign concepts.
Present the thinking, write the copy and partner with creative teams through execution.
The Office tip: Turn one strong Substack essay into a mini strategy case study: the tension you noticed, the research behind it, the audience insight and the creative direction it could unlock. Original Form needs to see the thinking underneath the writing.
Perks: Medical, dental and vision cover, 401(k), unlimited PTO, annual bonus and a company retreat.
To apply
Email join@originalform.com or view the listing.
Company: Wonder Valley
Location: USA, remote
Type: Fractional, approximately 20 hours per week; initial 60-day trial
Salary: $5,000–$6,000 per month (USD)
Deadline: Rolling
About Wonder Valley
Wonder Valley is a founder-led olive oil, skincare and body-care brand built around “Grandeur in Simplified Living”.
What you’d be doing
Own growth strategy across paid media, ecommerce, retention, Amazon and wholesale support.
Turn channel data into decisions, then brief agencies and creatives clearly enough to act on them.
Build the operating rhythm behind campaigns, reporting, testing and lifecycle work.
The Office tip: Use your Substack analytics as a tiny growth case study. Show what you changed after noticing a weak open rate, conversion point or reader drop-off, and what happened next. Wonder Valley is hiring the person who can connect taste to performance.
To apply
See the full job description and apply
Company: thatgamecompany
Location: Southeast Asia, remote
Type: Full-time
Deadline: Rolling
Language: Professional fluency in English + Mandarin, English + Vietnamese, or Mandarin + Vietnamese
About thatgamecompany
thatgamecompany is the game studio behind Sky and Journey.
What you’d be doing
Build creator-led content and community strategy for Southeast Asian audiences, with a close read on platform culture and audience behaviour.
The Office tip: Show how your Substack creates participation, not only readership. A recurring prompt, reader feature, comment ritual or community-led edition can prove you know how to turn an audience into a world people want to return to, which is very Sky.
To apply
See the full job description and apply
Company: Trulioo
Location: Worldwide, remote; hybrid model typically work 3 days per week at a Trulioo hub in Vancouver, San Diego and Dublin
Type: Full-time, permanent
Salary: $150,000–$180,000 per year plus bonus (USD)
Deadline: Rolling
What you’d be doing
Lead the company’s narrative and content direction. The listing explicitly values candidates who’ve built a newsletter or publication with its own name and following.
The Office tip: Trulioo explicitly values people who’ve built a publication with its own following. Put the Substack’s name, positioning, growth and strongest recurring format near the top of your application, not underneath a generic “content experience” bullet.
To apply
See the full job description and apply
Company: Triple Whale
Location: USA, remote
Type: Full-time
Salary: $90,000–$125,000 per year (USD)
Deadline: Rolling
What you’d be doing
Own a creator and affiliate marketing engine, building partnerships around audience trust rather than treating creators as rented distribution.
The Office tip: Use your own sponsorship, affiliate or cross-promotion experience as evidence. Explain how you protected reader trust while still driving an action. Triple Whale needs someone who understands that creator performance collapses when the audience can smell the brief.
To apply
See the full job description and apply
Company: Hook Music
Location: Remote, based in New York City or Los Angeles
Type: Full-time
Deadline: Rolling
What you’d be doing
Own the brand voice, editorial calendar and creator strategy for a social music and remix platform.
The Office tip: Build a 1-page “newsletter-to-feed” sample around one music moment: the cultural take you’d publish on Substack, then the hooks and creator prompts you’d spin from it. Hook needs proof that you can turn a point of view into an editorial calendar.
To apply
See the full job description and apply
Company: Runway
Location: Remote; also listed in New York, San Francisco and Seattle
Type: Full-time
Salary: $100,000–$150,000 per year (USD)
Deadline: Rolling
What you’d be doing
Scout creators, build influencer relationships and develop social partnerships for an AI video company.
The Office tip: Treat your Substack network as a research lab. Share one example of spotting a creator early, understanding the audience fit and proposing something more specific than “let’s collab”. Runway will care about your taste in people as much as your follower maths.
To apply
See the full job description and apply
Company: Patreon
Location: New York or San Francisco, hybrid 2 days per week
Type: Full-time, hybrid
Salary: $280,000–$420,000 plus equity (USD)
Deadline: Rolling
What you’d be doing
Lead product marketing for a platform built around independent creators, translating product strategy into positioning, launches and market growth.
The Office tip: Frame your Substack as a product, not a hobby: audience problem, positioning, reader journey, launch choices, retention habits and revenue model. Patreon is one of the few places where building your own publication can become direct product-marketing evidence.
To apply
See the full job description and apply
Pick the 2 roles that make you think, “Oh. I could do that.” Then prove it in their language.
Don’t write “I run a Substack” and leave the hiring manager to connect the dots. Tell them you built an editorial calendar, grew a reader community, interviewed contributors, studied performance, wrote conversion copy, managed distribution, or published every week across 3 countries and 2 time zones.
Choose 1 role. Tailor 1 application. Send the thing.
If you land an interview from this list, come back and tell us. I’ll be nosy, delighted, and emotionally invested.
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